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The greatest-ever champagne vintage?
A comparative tasting of champagne from the highly acclaimed 1996 vintage and the overshadowed 1995. And a daring way to remove a recalcitrant champagne cork. Was 1996 the greatest-ever champagne...
Andy Howard MW
Monday 15 December 2025
• 4 min read
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
• 2 min read
Wine news in 5
Champagne’s first Voltis harvest, tariff effects, ancient Turkish wine facility unearthed
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 1 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Are the differences between 2008 and 2009 champagnes blindingly obvious? Champagne nut Nick Baker of The Finest Bubble likes to...
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All this week, and next Monday, our tasting articles feature that delicious mixture, wine and carbon dioxide – in fact...
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The first of a week-long wallow in sparkling tasting articles focuses on grower champagnes. See this guide to our Week...
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A small tasting that revealed the fascinating and unpredictable effects of ageing champagne under the sea.
‘This is going to...
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Louis Roederer’s take on the particularly ripe, early 2018 harvest in Champagne. Champagne specialist Tim Hall interviewed Louis Roederer’s chef...
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This article, of which a version is published by the Financial Times , and Thursday’s battle of the prestige cuvées...
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That English sparkling wine v champagne blind comparison moves up a notch or two. See also 1086 – another triumph...
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From 24 Swiss francs in bond, £26.60, €31.90, $39.99, HK$320, 4,830 Japanese yen Find this wine It’s rather fashionable to...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also New wave champagnes 2018. Draw near, children...
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See also How to be a new wave champagne producer. If you click on the 'growers' champagne' tag at the...
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It’s mid June, and we’re sitting in the kitchen in a small village in the Aude, watching rain lashing the...
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Louis Pommery English sparkling wine £39.99 Pommery champagne widely available internationally, from €21, $29.97, £35.95 Find the English version Find...
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In my 42 years writing about wine I have frequently had to pinch myself as I sit down to enjoy...
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We are publishing free for everyone three of Tam's 40+ book reviews that so entertained Purple Pagers over the recent...
Hemming's spittoon
Last month I attempted to prove that the label on a bottle of wine is far more important to us...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . It is the last in a series of...
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